The Influence of International Institutions on the EU / Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PDF)

GEORGE CHRISTOU Associate Lecturer in European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK
XINYUAN DAI Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
CHAD DAMRO Senior Lecturer of Politics and IR and Co-Director of the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium
TOM DELREUX Associate Professor in Political Science at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe, at the UCLouvain, Belgium
EDITH DRIESKENS Assistant Professor of International Relations, Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium
MARTIJN GROENLEER Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University, the Netherlands
CHRISTIAN KAUNERT Lecturer in European Politics and International Relations at the University of Salford, UK, and Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, Italy
BART KERREMANS Professor of International Political Economy and American Politics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
ROBERT KISSACK Junior Professor at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain
JOACHIM A. KOOPS Assistant Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the European Peace & Security Studies (EPSS) Programme at Vesalius College, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium
SARAH LÉONARD Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford, UK
GINA MARTINEZ Ph.D. student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
MARIANNE RIDDERVOLD Research Fellow at ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
SEAMUS SIMPSON Professor of Media Policy in the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford, UK
HELENE SJURSEN Research Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway
BARBARA SCHUMACHER PhD candidate at the Goethe

'Whereas the 'Brussels effect' stresses the influence of the European Union on policies around the world, this book innovatively turns the tables around and asks how international institutions such as the ILO, the WTO and NATO influence the EU itself. Arguing that international institutions help Brussels pressure member states to adopt policies they might oppose, it suggests that the EU is more open to such outside influence when this expands Brussels's own governance spheres. The Influence of International Institutions on the EU thus opens up an array of new questions and ideas about the EU in the world.'

- Judith Kelley, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA

'Most scholarship on the EU is surprisingly inward-oriented. It looks at the emergence of EU institutions and policies and their effects on member states. There is also increasing work on the diffusion of EU institutions and policies outside Europe. But there isalmost no literature on external influences on the EU itself. This book fills this gap. It investigates through detailed case studies the influence of multilateral institutions on the EU itself. An extremely important contribution to EU studies and to our understanding of international institutions in general!'

- Thomas Risse, Professor of International Politics, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany